 1967-1971: Photo Intelligence Officer, United States
Air Force; served to the rank of Captain.ENTREPRENEURIAL PROJECT

Founder
and President (1991), Serendipity: Russian Consulting & Development,
Ltd. (now called Serendipity-Russia.) Organized and financed the
building of a model American home in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois'
Russian Sister City of Vladimir; dedicated July 4, 1992. The American
Home is Serendipity's headquarters for a variety of not-for-profit
and for-profit activities. These include an American English &
Culture School, with more than 400 Russian students per term and eight
American teachers; an intensive Russian language program; a tourism
development program; and assistance with a variety of activities,
including educational and cultural exchanges, business and police
training, and other not-for-profit projects. This is a major undertaking
which has received significant recognition. (See, for example, The
Post-Soviet Handbook, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996,
pp. 11-12; Pennsylvania Gazette (University of Pennsylvania alumni
magazine), March/April 2001; available on the web at: http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0301/0301pro4.html
)MAJOR GRANTS

Tourism Development
Project funding, 2004 to the present. Initiated the project and
played a major role in getting a $5,000 "seed grant" from
Sister Cities International.. Obtained an additional $26,000 in private
funding. The goal of this project is to help the City of Vladimir
and the surrounding communities fully develop their tourist potential.
The project team includes Dr. Bruce Wicks, a University of Illinois
tourism development specialist; Karen Hasara, former mayor of Springfield,
Illinois; and Katya Lakshtanova, a University of Illinois tourism
management Masters degree recipient who is formerly from Moscow. For
more information on this major project see www.serendipity-russia.com/tourdev.html.

Three Fulbright-Hays
Group Programs Abroad. Grants totaling $235,000. The first two
grants were obtained through the University of Illinois Russian, East
European, and Eurasian Center in 2004 and 2007. The third grant for
summer 2008 was received by the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian
Studies at the University of Chicago. All the in-country arrangements
for these grants were made through the American Home in Vladimir.
Dr. Pope was the initiator of this program, and a major contributor
to and the trip Director for all three grants. (For more information
on these very successful projects, see the Serendipity website: special
projects -- educational exchange.)

 "Business Success in the Former Soviet Union: The Role
of Public Relations," (1998) Johnson's Russia List
(# 2118, 25 March).

 "Miscalculation in Soviet Foreign Policy: An Update,"
(1991). Crossroads. (November), pp. 30-39. (Some of
the research for this article was supported by a grant from the Earhart
Foundation.)

 "Helping the Soviet Union Make the Transition," (1991).
Statement submitted by request to Lee Hamilton, Chairman, Subcommittee
on Europe and the Middle East, House Foreign Affairs Committee, U.S.
Congress.

 "Public Opinion research in the Soviet Union: A Firsthand
Account," (1990). Report on the USSR. (October
26), pp. 8-12.

 "Introduction: Soviet Views on World Affairs: The International
System and Emerging Multipolarity," (1973-74). Co-authored with
Nils H. Wessell. International Journal of Politics.
(Winter), pp. 3-12.

 "Austerity: Will the Soviet Public Rebel?" (1990).
The Christian Science Monitor. (September 27), p. 19.
(Translated in Za rubezhom, Moscow. This was a weekly
national Soviet publication with a circulation of over 700,000.)

 "Can the Soviet Union Survive in the Computer Age?"
(1985). The Tampa Times-Tribune (and three other major
newspapers). (March 24). (This article was reprinted by the U.S.
Information Agency for distribution abroad.)

 McFaul, Michael, Nikiolai Petrov, and Andrei Ryabov, Between
Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Post-Communist Political Reform,
published in Perspectives on Political Science (Spring
2005).

 Satter, David, Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian
Criminal State, published in Perspectives on Political
Science. (Winter 2004). This is a review essay.

 Simai, Mihaly, ed., The Democratic Process and the Market:
Challenges of the Transition, published in Journal of
the Community Development Society (July 2004).

 Taubman, William, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era,
published in Perspectives on Political Science (Summer
2003). This book won a Pulitzer Prize.

 Hahn, Jeffrey W.,
ed., Regional Russia in Transition: Studies from Yaroslavl,
published in Perspectives on Political Science, (Spring
2003).

 McFaul, Michael,
Russia's Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev
to Putin, published in Perspectives on Political Science
(Fall, 2002). [A longer version of this last review appeared (with
permission) in Johnson's Russia List, #6448, 10 October
2002.]

 Remington, Thomas
F., The Russian Parliament: Institutional Evolution in a Transitional
Regime, 1989-1999, published in Perspectives on Political
Science (Summer, 2002)

 Reddaway, Peter and Dmitri Glinski, The Tragedy of Russia's
Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy, published in
Perspectives on Political Science. (Fall, 2001)

 Washington, D.C., June 8-9, 1998. "Is Justice Possible
in Russia?" Paper presented at the Third International Conference:
Past, Present & Future of Russia. (Presentation resulted in an
interview-in Russian-for a Voice of America program and a request
to write an article for Demokratizatsiya.)

 Geneva, Switzerland, August 1985. Invited panel discussant
at an international conference on The Fall of the Soviet Empire.SELECTED AMERICAN CONFERENCES

 Organizer and presenter, panel on "The Prospects for Democracy
in Russia," Midwest Slavic Conference, Urbana, Illinois, April
1, 2000.

 "Doing Business With Russians--Some Cultural Considerations,"
University of Illinois Russian and East European Center Workshop on
Doing Business in Russia, April 13, 2000.

 "Russian Culture: Some Implications," University
of South Carolina, March 3, 2000.

 Information and recommendations presented to the Democratic
Budget Study Group, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.,
October 23, 1991. (Presentation was by invitation and was made in
conjunction with Congressmen Jim Leach and Steven Solarz to approximately
50 Congressmen and staff.)

 Written proposal on agricultural aid to the Soviet Union submitted
to the U.S. Congress and Executive branch, 1991.

Russian: Reasonably fluent. Interpreter for visiting Russians.
Regularly give extensive lectures and interviews in Vladimir, Russia.
Have taught beginning Russian. Lived in a small Russian émigré
community in Glendora, California while attending the School of Theology,
1964-65.PROFESSIONAL TRAVEL

The Soviet Union/Russia: March 1974; May-June 1979; May 1980;
May 1982; May-June 1983; July-August 1984; May 1985; May 1988, March
and May 1990; May-June and September 1991; December-January 1991-92;
March, May-July, and October 1992, June-July, August 1993; January
and May 1994; January, March, June, November 1995, December 1995-January
1996, February, May, August, December 1996; January, March, July,
August 1997, December 1997-January 1998; August 1998; July, August
1999; May, August 2000; May-July, August 2001; June-July 2002; May-June
2003; June-August 2004; May-June 2005; May-June 2006, June-July 2007,
June-July 2008, September 2009.

Austria: December 1997 (consulting for Motorola)Poland: June 1980, May 1988.Hungary: June 1988.Germany and Switzerland: August 1985 (international conference).

PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC SERVICE

 Regular assistance to faculty and others nation-wide who are
working on projects in the Vladimir, Russia area.

 Panel Member, "Career Opportunities in International Studies,"
meeting on "Youth Diplomacy," sponsored by the Peoria Area
World Affairs Council, November 18, 2001. (Interview by Ch. 25, WEEK
TV.)

 Numerous interviews and articles on the Soviet Union/Russia
published in area and national media; interviews, articles, and excerpts
from articles published in Vladimir, Russia, and in other Russian
publications.

 Television and radio interviews both in the U.S. and Russia,
including an interview on NPR's All Things Considered, and
interviews on Voice of America.

 Presentations on Soviet/Russian society, business, and politics
for numerous local groups and for groups in Vladimir, Russia.